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...refuse to address the issue, Fry wants kids to be put in the care of professionals - with the provision that parents may visit - and that steps are taken to alter the family's diet so the child may eventually return to a healthier home. Last year, Fry introduced a motion to that effect at the U.K.'s National Obesity Forum conference but could convince just one-third of the delegates to support it. "I knew that I was running against the tide, but I'm seeing others slowly but surely coming around," he says...
...best practices from the LEED process and apply them to the other dorms without going for the formal certification.”According to Anthony Pacillo, Senior Manager of Harvard Yard and Freshman Dormitories, increasing sustainability in the dorms is a complex process which includes installing dual-flush toilets, motion sensor lighting, water-saving showerheads, and increased recycling. As Pacillo says, it’s an effort to do “basically whatever we can possibly do in the buildings.”Despite budget cuts this year, OFS is still aggressively pursuing green building. Gauthier conservatively estimates...
...Moore totally overpowers Tassie with her brilliance--observing and recording with the laser eyes of an ancient sibyl, not a Midwestern undergraduate with low self-esteem. As the drifts of perfectly turned moments mount up about the reader's shoulders, along with a corresponding paucity of dramatic incident, forward motion becomes increasingly difficult. Moore is a great writer, but you wish that every once in a while, she would settle for just being good...
...would not be surprised to learn that they stepped up their efforts to catch him once he filed that motion alleging all sorts of misconduct by the judge and by the prosecutor's office as a whole," says Jean Rosenbluth, USC law school professor and former federal prosecutor. "He put them in this position where he made all these allegations and yet they could not be adjudicated because he's a fugitive. He can't file this motion and make all these allegations and expect the DA's office to do nothing about it." (Why the French are outraged...
Given Polanski's decision to fight his extradition and the fact that three countries are involved in the process, he most likely will not set foot on U.S. soil for some time. Polanski is currently being held by Swiss authorities, although his lawyers filed a motion for his release - the first in what will probably be a long legal battle with a lot of paperwork...